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FridayFix™ – SiglerFest Video Announcement

A few weeks back we posted the “Cribs” tour of the Office of Døøm. The response was so good, I thought we’d try letting you “sit in” on one of our weekly Tuesday morning video teleconferences. This week we were schedule to talk SiglerFest. As it sometimes goes when the FDO™, things did not unfold as I’d imagined they would. I will leave it to you to decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

We’re just about sold out for SiglerFest, with fewer than 10 spaces remaining at the time of this posting. If you’re interested (and who wouldn’t be after Scott’s rousing Q & A above?) shake your booty over to the SiglerFest page and get in on this!

(P.S. I’m just now learning Final Cut Pro as a video editing tool, as you can probably tell once you watch. Still need practice, but it’s pretty sweet!)

About The Author

I'm the Director of Døøm here at Empty Set Entertainment, and a founding partner at Audacity Events, a San Diego based management company that builds world class events and manages one-of-a-kind talent. I'm a movie geek, Doctor Who fan, skeptic and science nerd. I don't like chocolate all that much.

Comments

This is a good video. You guys are gettin’ good at this whole humorous yet informative content thingie.

American Sign Language note: Sigler actually did perform the sign that translates to the English word GO pretty accurately. (But it was probably on accident. Many signs in ASL are intuitive because, guess what, it really is a natural language. 😛 )

Dig the Dig! Dig the Sig!A, you are such a great straight-WOman! The looks reminded me a little of my Mom when I start talking about things like Warrior Dash and jumping over a fire pit. Did everyone fill out their release forms yet? Sounds like DOM will be requiring some legal protection in case of “accidental” injury or DEATH!I love the videos! I was laughing my azz off (with headphones on) and the big guy thought I had gone cukoo. Nope, just diggin’ the Sig! (see what I did there?)[flickr-photo:id=5069365035, size=m] [flickr-photo:id=4347154616] Pusher and member of the Gutter Sistren

I have daylight-corrected flourescents coming in from both sides and from the front. I need to get some more lights, apparently. The problem is distance – I am about a foot away from the wall, and the camera is about 3-4 feet away from me. That’s all the room I have available in the Office of Døøm.

Yes… this installment was fun as hell… but as a professional….I feel the need to do my best to help out my FDO and the rest of the crew.

If you want to get rid of that nasty green halo when compositing video…grab every light you have that isn’t nailed down and point it at the green screen behind you…and move them around so that the green, through the camera, looks like a solid, unending field of the exact same color. If you can get it at least CLOSE…. you can crank your compositing down a little tighter so that you don’t get that funky green FDO halo…. unless you like having a funky, Kermit-like halo. If so…ignore this advice.